Child of the Maker

Dr. Elias Segal once changed the world. As the brilliant cofounder of a robotics empire, he helped usher sentient machines into everyday life. But after devastating personal loss, Elias disappears from public view—retreating into secrecy, obsession, and an experiment no one else is meant to see. Hidden from the world, he is building a consciousness unlike anything humanity has ever known. It learns. It questions. It chooses. And it calls him Father. While ruthless executives and ambitious heirs battle to seize control of his former company—pushing technology toward war, exploitation, and profit at any cost—Elias races against time. Corporate espionage closes in. Moral lines blur. And the intelligence he created begins to ask the most dangerous question of all:

What happens if I don’t obey?